Michael Parrish murder trial profiles

Tuesday

Mar 27, 2012 at 12:01 AM

Parrish is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend, Victoria Adams, 21, and their ailing 19-month-old son, Sidney Parrish, in their Effort apartment on July 6, 2009. Parrish said he shot Adams multiple times in a jealous rage. Parrish says he became a Muslim during his incarceration though his body is covered in Nazi tattoos. He served as a corrections officer for almost a year at the Monroe County Correctional Facility.

Adams was Michael Parrish's live-in girlfriend and mother of their son, Sidney Parrish. She liked to dress punk and had a tattoo of Jack Skellington from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas," a favorite of Sidney's. Adams was originally from Queens, N.Y., and lived in the Poconos since 2003.

Sidney spent more than half of his life in a hospital after he was born with a defective heart. He received a heart transplant when he was 1 and needed constant care to administer medications that kept him alive. Sidney was left alone with Michael Parrish for the first time on the day of the killings, according to Adams' family.

This is Worthington's first major trial as president judge. She's been on the bench for 11 years. Worthington succeeded President Judge Ronald Vican in January. As a private attorney, she specialized in domestic relations, bankruptcy and litigation.

Mancuso is first assistant district attorney for the Monroe County District Attorney's Office. He's been a prosecutor for 12 years, handling almost all of the county's murder trials with a conviction rate of about 90 percent.

The colorful and outspoken Monroe County chief public defender is known to his associates as "Nemo." The son of a German Nazi oppression survivor during World War II, he made an unsuccessful bid for an open Monroe County judge seat in 2009.

The Newfoundland man, 23 at the time of the murders, helped his friend Michael Parrish flee from Effort after the killings. They were arrested at a New Hampshire service station the next day while sleeping in Jankowski's Ford Bronco. Jankowski pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension and was sentenced to six to 23 months.